The Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Swim, as it’s called, is a 411-mile relay staged to honor the 50th anniversary of the sinking ...

In November 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald encountered a treacherous storm while steaming across Lake Superior. All 29 crew ...

Sixty-eight swimmers will swim in a relay to finish the 411-mile journey the Edmund Fitzgerald never got to complete in November 1975.

A memorial relay swim is symbolically finishing the Edmund Fitzgerald's final journey nearly 50 years after the ship sank in ...

2023 Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event: The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula will be offering a virtual memorial service on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

For 15-year-old Eryn Drayton, swimming in the historic relay also has personal meaning. She'll be swimming near Sugar Island, ...

It was exactly 40 years ago when "the winds of November came early" and took the legendary Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 souls to the bottom of Lake Superior, a disaster ...

The Fitzgerald family has a long maritime history in Port Huron, dating back to 1837. The swim will trace the freighter's intended route, symbolically completing its final voyage. The relay will raise ...

It was 40 years ago that the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in Lake Superior. Historian Christopher Winters recently co-authored a book, The Legend Lives On, commemorating the sinking and it will be ...

2022 Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Event: The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point in the Upper Peninsula will be offering a virtual memorial service on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

It was exactly 40 years ago Tuesday when “the winds of November came early” and took the legendary Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald and 29 souls to the bottom of Lake Superior, a… ...